Commitment to Overcome Depression
There is hope if you turn to God and assume your responsibility. How do you do this? Continue reading for 8 commitments to make between yourself and God as you battle with depression.
Paying Attention to Deceptive Thoughts
Christians all over the world are struggling with tempting, condemning and mocking thoughts. Where are those thoughts coming from? Is this just self-talk, or could we be paying attention to a deceiving spirit? To whoever or whatever we yield ourselves to, to that we will be controlled.
Satan's Primary Strategy
If Satan can place a thought in your mind, it isn't much more of a trick for him to make you think it's your idea. Deception is his primary strategy—which is why you must know the Truth, because the Truth will set you free.
The Basis of Our Hope
Hope is the present assurance of some future good. David battled depression and wrote about it in Psalms. Through his writing we can see three scriptural ways to overcome depression.
Our Transfer
Whenever you focus your mind and activities on spiritual things, this is where you will grow. To grow stronger in your faith, keep focusing and putting energy into developing your life with Christ.
Commitment to Overcome Depression
There is hope if you turn to God and assume your responsibility. How do you do this? Continue reading for 8 commitments to make between yourself and God as you battle with depression.
Identifying Losses
Whether losses are real, threatened or imagined, the emotional affect is the same.
The Way of Life
God created us to live in a certain way that is pleasing to Him and fulfilling for us.
Overpowering the Captors
Satan's power is already broken, but he will not let go of anything he thinks he can keep until we exercise the authority delegated to us by the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Flesh (Part 1)
Once we shine a light on the lies we believe, renounce those lies, and choose to accept the truth, the lies lose their power in our lives.
The Benefits of Emotional Honesty
We need to be real about our emotional condition if we want to be right with God.
Owning the Truth
The first step in establishing a righteous relationship is to embrace the truth. God desires truth in the inner person and teaches wisdom in the inmost places.
One Fear Object
If we’re going to walk by faith, there can be only one fear-object in our lives, and that’s God. He is the one fear that expels all other fears.
The Benefits of Emotional Honesty
We need to be real about our emotional condition if we want to be right with God.
Overcoming Depression
Depression has been called the common cold of mental illness, and David—a man after God’s own heart—experienced the same feelings that depression brings on today. Yet he overcame and found joy in the Lord.
The Way of Life
God created us to live in a certain way that is pleasing to Him and fulfilling for us.
The Basis of Our Hope
Hope is the present assurance of some future good. David battled depression and wrote about it in Psalms. Through his writing we can see three scriptural ways to overcome depression.
The Judgment and Defeat of Satan
The explicit purpose of Christ’s coming into this world was to destroy the devil’s work. Satan’s doom will be to share the eternal punishment of those whom he deceived.